I just looked it up on wikipedia and interestingly some think that it might refer to Muhammad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_Beast Never heard that theory before.
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I just looked it up on wikipedia and interestingly some think that it might refer to Muhammad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_Beast Never heard that theory before.
The thing with the book of Revelation is that the book of Revelation explains itself.
Revelation 17 is key to the understanding of who the wild beast is. Verses 9-14 actually tells us who the wild beast is and it says it is kings. In fact the heads of the beast represent 7 powerful governments that have affected God’s people.
At the time of writing John wrote that 5 heads had fallen. These were Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, and Greece. He then said one head is which was Rome, then one will be but will last only a little while comparatively. Like Medo-Persia which was a dual world power this head will also be a dual power. Today that head rules with the Anglo-American world power of England and America since WWI (1914).
This is also inline with the vision of the immense image found in the book of Daniel only that vision was looking at kings from Babylon onwards hence why there is only 5 sections mentioned. Daniel 2:31-35
The problem with many of these people trying to pinpoint to one person is that they have cherry picked pieces of the Bible rather than looking at it as a whole. By using the Bible to interpret the Bible the whole book makes sense. Especially the book of Revelation.
Most religions are self referring, which is natural considering the system building effort of theology. But as they also insist to know everything about the real world some connections to history is necessary. The four testaments are after all bearing witness about Christ. But it is true that not only the revelation of John, but all of the new testament is referring backwards to the old prophets.
One thing in your analysis I do not agree with. The Brits were never Romans, neither politically nor culturally. The German-Austrian realms are the the heritage of Rome and their Emperors fell in 1918.